Wet Asphalt

Wet Asphalt

6.0IMDb Score
Released:1958-04-02
Duration:90 min
Country:Germany
Director:Frank Wisbar
Actors:Horst Buchholz, Martin Held, Maria Perschy, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Reincke
Production:Inter West Film

Overview:

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

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